"Yes, in this winter, the food at home is almost at the bottom, and if you give up the money, isn't it life-threatening?"

"Lord Inspector, you can't force people to their deaths, right?"

For a while, there were many discussions, and Chen Yue's words were no longer heard.

"Silence, silence!" Chen Yue waved his hand, and the two family members behind him raised their firearms and fired two shots into the sky.

"Bang bang" two crisp gunshots shot straight into the sky, shocking the villagers to close their mouths tightly.

"Did I say I wanted everyone to help?" Chen Yue asked coldly.

Well? The villagers looked at each other, and then realized that there was a misunderstanding, just now the inspector just said that everyone should save themselves, and did not mention the matter of money.

"What do you mean?" The first voice sounded again, Chen Yue looked intently, and saw that the person who spoke was a man in his twenties wearing a torn cotton jacket and a long stream.

"Good question! What this official means is that the Mantars may come to Xishan Town again at some point, and they will rob us of our belongings, kill our old and weak relatives, and finally plunder the young and strong to slavery outside the gate.

The official didn't want to see such a thing happen again, so he gathered everyone together to discuss a way to save themselves. There are only dozens of officers and soldiers under this officer, which is far from enough to resist the Manchurian Tartars, so he intends to expand the scale of the inspection department and recruit archers, and all young and strong people can sign up. ”

So that's the case, and the villagers are relieved. As long as you don't let the money out, as for the recruitment of archers, the practice in previous years was like this, the archers of the Inspection Division are recruited from all over the country, and there are a lot of quick catches in addition to being exempt from military service as archers in the Inspection Division, but it is a good errand.

"Lord Inspector, the Mantars are extremely vicious, and the officers and soldiers of the imperial court can't do anything about them, and now you are recruiting archers to fight with them, isn't this letting everyone go to death?" The young man who was angry spoke again, and his voice sounded so annoying to Chen Yue.

"Da Nengnai is right, now you can't go to the Inspection Division as an archer and fight with the Mantars, that's to send you to death." The thin man whispered to Goatee, who nodded in agreement with the thin man's words.

"Sent to death? Are you willing to fight to the death to protect your family, or are you willing to watch your family being killed by the Mantars and your wife being taken to slavery? Chen Yue glared angrily at the angry young man and asked coldly.

"The Mantars are here, we can flee to the mountains, why fight with them? Besides, I don't have a wife or family ......" Under Chen Yue's forced gaze, his words became lower and lower.

"Most of the Mantars are cavalry, coming and going like the wind, I'm afraid that when they come to the town, we will find them coming, and where will they have time to escape?" Chen Yue decided not to pay attention to this angry young man, there were too many people who were greedy for life and afraid of death in the Ming Dynasty, so that the Mantars were rampant, and tens of thousands of Manchu soldiers occupied the flowers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, Chen Yue knew that it was really difficult to persuade these people to join the army and fight against the Qing soldiers based on words alone, and he had to come up with some tangible benefits, but fortunately, he was prepared.

"Anyone who is willing to join the Inspection Division, as an archer and a Mantar fighter, will be granted five acres of fertile land, exempt from all field rent as a family support, and there will be another subsidy for serving as a soldier in the Inspection Division, and three meals a day will be provided by the Inspection Division when training and fighting. If they die in battle, the land belongs to their families and is never to be recovered. ”

captured Zhao Li's manor and mastered all of Zhao Li's wealth, including Zhao Li's 1,500 acres of land, and the title deed was hidden under the bed in Zhao Li's bedroom. Naturally, so much land has to be used, but it is very troublesome to sell it or otherwise. It is most affordable to sell silver, but now that the Qing soldiers are abusing them, where can they find a rich man to buy so many fields at one time? Besides, the sale of land must go through the government, and the land deed must be stamped with the big seal of Fangshan County, but these fields are all owned by Zhao Li, even if Zhao Li's rebellion is exterminated by Chen Yue, a patrol inspection department has no right to sell land without authorization.

As for the use of Tuntian, more than 1,000 acres of land seems to be a lot, and the grain laid down can indeed support an army of hundreds of people, but Tuntian is too slow after all, and Chen Yue has no intention of staying in this remote Xishan Town for a long time. It is better to use these lands as conditions to lure villagers to join the inspection department. After all, five acres of land is already a lot, even if the year is relatively poor, you can harvest four or five stones of grain a year, and do not charge any tax and rent, only the harvest of these five acres of land, saving enough food rations for a family of three for a year.

In fact, Chen Yue can also not forcibly recruit archers for the field, after all, being an archer for the inspection department is also a kind of service, and being an archer in the inspection department can be exempted from other labor, and it can get a lot of benefits, and many villagers are very willing.

However, the archers that Chen Yue wants to recruit are not archers in the ordinary sense, for the archers of the General Inspection Division, the duty is only to check pedestrians and arrest bandits and robbers, while the archers that Chen Yue wants to recruit are to really fight against the Qing soldiers, so they must be clear before recruiting, so as not to cause many people to escape when they really fight. After all, the archers of the Inspection Division are not armies and have no obligation to fight foreign enemies.

went to the inspection department as an archer, and had to fight against the Mantars, but he could get five acres of fertile land, and the output was enough to satisfy the family's food, so many villagers hesitated. As for whether Chen Yue had so many fields in his hands, they didn't doubt it, after all, after exterminating Zhao Li, all of Zhao Li's fields fell into the hands of this young inspector.

"I'm signing up!" Just when the villagers hesitated, a voice suddenly sounded, and everyone turned to look, but it was the young man who was angry.

"I said very capable, haven't you been questioning the inspector just now? Why are you signing up again now, don't mess it up, okay? A villager smiled at the young man.

"Go, go, whoever mixes it, when the archers destroy the Manchu Tartars and defend the country, it is what every Ming man should do. I, Liu Da, have a heart and are loyal to the country, in fact, what can you and other people understand? The young man walked out complacently, and boasted shamelessly.

"Cut! I'm afraid you've taken a fancy to those five acres of land! The villagers scolded disdainfully.

"Of course, loyalty to the country is what every man should do, it would be better to have five acres of land without paying rent, and with it, maybe I can get a wife." The young man laughed.

"Come on, register his name first," Chen Yue frowned and looked at this young man who was angry, he didn't want to, but he was the first to sign up to respond, so he could only sigh helplessly and ordered, "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Liu Neng, and my nickname is Liu Daneng......